Helen Ryaciotaki-Boussalis

College of Engeering, Computer Science, and Technology

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Office Location:
ET
A315

Phone:
(323) 343-4549
Email:
hboussa@exchange.calstatela.edu

Introduction

My areas of interest include large-scale systems, stability, decentralized control, neural networks, and vibration control. I am the former chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. As a professor at Cal State L.A. I have taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in the area of control systems. Since 1994 I have received grants of $19,770,000 to conduct research in the areas of Decentralized Control, Neural Networks and Multimedia Technology.I am a senior member of IEEE and a member of the National Engineering Department Heads Association. My recent awards include the NASA Faculty Research Award (2011), Distinguished Women Award (2004), CSULA Wang Family Excellence Award Nomination (2001), Engineering Council Educator of the Year Award (2000), the Cal State L.A. Outstanding Professor Award (1995), NASA Technical Brief (1991), Cal State L.A. ECE Department Professor of the Year award (1988), and Department of Energy Fellow (1988). Among my honorary memberships are the Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi, Who's Who in Frontiers of Science and Technology, Who's Who in the World, 2,000 Notable American Women, and Distinguished Leadership Award for Excellence in Engineering Education.

The Structures, Propulsion, And Control Engineering (SPACE) University Research Center (URC) was established in 2003 at the California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA) with NASA funding of $6 million. The Center recently received a NASA award of $5 million to continue research for the next five years. The URC is composed of two laboratories: the Structures Pointing and Control Engineering (SPACE) laboratory and the Multidisciplinary Flight Dynamics and Control (MFDC) laboratory. The SPACE University Research Center (URC) works in partnership with Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC) as the lead NASA center, and JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) as the secondary NASA center. In addition, the URC has a close collaboration with Boeing Company and Northrop Grumman Corporation. The major areas of research in the URC are directly related to the missions of the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), and Combustion) and Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (James Webb Space Telescope), addressing and supporting some of these missions' key challenges.

41. "Vibration Suppression Control of a Large Telescope Using Decentralized Control", Proc. 1994 ACC.

42. "The Use of Finite Element Modeling and Decentralized Techniques in Control of Long-Reach Manipulators," Proc 1994 American Control Conference, Baltimore, 1994.

43. "Finite Element Modeling and Decentralized Control Techniques for a Long-Reach Manipulator," with M. Mirmirani, Proc Third International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Computer Vision, Singapore, 1994.

55. "Decentralized Control of Large Flexible Space Telescope Using H2 Control," IASTED International Conf., Austria, 1996.

56. "The Application of H-infinity Control Law to a Decentralized Segmented Reflector," IASTED/SCS Conf., Australia, 1996.

57. "Decentralized Control of a Large Precision Segmented Reflector Using H2 (LQG) Control Technique, " CDC, 1996.

58. "Use of H-infinity Control Law for the Decentralized Control of a Large Flexible Space Telescope, " IASTED International Conference, 1996.

59. "A Neural Network Controller for Vibration Control of a Large Segmented Space Reflector, " IEEE 4th Mediterranean Symposium on Control and Automation, 1996.

60. "The Use of Decentralized Control in Design of a Large Segmented Space Reflector, " 1996 NASA grant Final Report, 1996.

61. "The Control and Structures Research Laboratory (CSRL) - A Control Oriented Test-Bed for Large Segmented Reflectors, " with Mirmirani, M., Rad, K., Ahmed, M., 5th IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Systems, Cyprus, 1997

82. "Structures, Pointing, and Control Engineering, a Segmented Reflector Test Bed, " with Florakis, D., and Mirmirani, M., IASTED International Conference on Control and Application, Cancun, Mexico, June 2002.

83. "The Use of Decentralized Direct Adaptive Control in Design of a Large Segmented Space Reflector", with Abdullah, A., Khoshafian, A., Rad, K., submitted to International Symposium of Intelligent Control, October 5-8, Houston, Texas, 2003.

84. "The Use of Parallel Processing to Achieve Decentralized Control of a Segmented Reflector Telescope", with Rad, K., Liu, C., Dong, J., Abdullah, A., Fallorina, S., Khoshafian, A., submitted to International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, June 23-26, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2003.